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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 17, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026

NFSv4.2: Rework scratch handling for READ_PLUS (again)

CVE-2023-53360

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSv4.2: Rework scratch handling for READ_PLUS (again)

I found that the read code might send multiple requests using the same nfs_pgio_header, but nfs4_proc_read_setup() is only called once. This is how we ended up occasionally double-freeing the scratch buffer, but also means we set a NULL pointer but non-zero length to the xdr scratch buffer. This results in an oops the first time decoding needs to copy something to scratch, which frequently happens when decoding READ_PLUS hole segments.

I fix this by moving scratch handling into the pageio read code. I provide a function to allocate scratch space for decoding read replies, and free the scratch buffer when the nfs_pgio_header is freed.

Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
    Range: < 6.10 (approx, based on commit timeline)
  • Linux/Linuxv5
    Range: 6.4

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